Research Article

Design of Ultrasmall Plasmonic Logic Gates Based on Single Nanoring Dielectric-Metal-Dielectric Waveguide

Table 8

Summarized simulation results for the NAND logic gate.

Input 1 (port 2)Input 2 (port 3)Control (port 1)Output (port 4)Transmission thresholdTCR (dB)MD (%)IL (dB)CL (dB)

OFFOFFON (0°)ON0.350.397.595.454.093.41
OFFON (0°)ON (0°)ON0.81
ON (0°)OFFON (0°)ON1.54
ON (180°)ON (90°)ON (0°)OFF0.07